Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024

section "S"

Selecting a Unit number will take you to the Guide Entry for that Unit.

San José, California
22.05.07 Climate Change Impact on Agriculture in California
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
15.03.02 Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film
15.03.04 French History in Your City: San Jose, California - the Pellier Brothers
14.03.05 Immigration and Migration: My Family and My Community

Sandburg, Carl
17.03.10 Philadelphia, Do you See What I See?
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape

Santa Fe, New Mexico
08.03.12 Who decides who benefits? A comparative view of wealth distribution using examples from New Mexico's Legislature, Santa Fe City and the Pueblo of Pojoaque
08.04.04 Building Bridges Over Turbulent Middle School Waters
07.03.07 Santa Fe and the World: Maps and Mapmaking of People, Places and Poverty

Science

Astrobiology
05.04.08 Why Earth? A Study of Planetary Habitability

Astronomy (see Astronomy)

Biology (see Biology)

Botany (see Botany)

Chemistry (see Chemistry)

Climate (see Climate Change; Ecology and Environmental Science)

Earth Science (see Earth Science)

Ecology (see Ecology and Environmental Science)

Energy (see Energy)

Environmental (see Ecology and Environmental Science)

Evolution (see Evolution)

Forensics (see Forensic Science)

Genetics (see Genetics)

Geology (see Geology)

Health (see Health)

Medicine (see Medicine)

History
24.04.02 Brainpower: Using Math and Science to Understand Five Moments in Energy History
14.06.05 Microbes as a Driving Force of Change

Instruction
21.04.09 Analyzing Electromagnetic Wavelengths and Their Interactions
21.05.08 STEAM and Human Centered Design of Biotechnology

Interdisciplinary
22.04.02 The Alien in Your Backyard: Using Exoplanetary Science to Explore the Ecosystems of Earth
22.04.03 Using Out of This World Knowledge to Build Literacy Skills! Space Writer on Board!
21.04.01 Our Sun: The Myths, The Facts, and Superman
21.04.02 Bringing the Solar System into Our Classroom
21.04.05 The Sun - the Father of All Energy for Life
21.04.07 Our Sun: Through Scientific, Cultural, and Artistic Lenses
14.06.05 Microbes as a Driving Force of Change
09.05.09 Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
07.02.03 Using Detective Fiction to Reinforce Problem Solving Strategies and the Scientific Method
07.05.07 Solar Energy -- Architectural Alternatives for Home Building
06.04.02 Things, Foods, and How We Know
06.05.06 A Planet Worth a Thousand Words: An English Teacher's Guide to Global Warming

Life Sciences
22.05.04 Will They Survive? Climate Change and its Impact on Biodiversity
21.05.05 Data and Graphical Analysis in Life Science
16.04.03 Plant, Watch, and Grow
13.06.02 Genetically Engineering Cures for Single Gene Diseases
12.05.09 Cardiovascular Medications, Beta-Blockers and their Effect on Cells
12.06.05 Inquiring Minds Want to Know...Teaching Vertebrates through Inquiry
12.06.06 Inquiry in the Middle School Classroom: Students as Watershed Stewards
11.07.02 A Recipe for Success: The Semi-sweet Pancreas
11.07.03 The Cardiovascular System: Mechanics and Dynamics
11.07.07 Teaching Osmosis and Diffusion through Kidney Dialysis
11.07.09 Heart Disease, Transplants and New Technology

Meteorology

Meteorology (see Meteorology)

Nanotechnology (see Nanotechnology)

Neurobiology (see Biology->Neurobiology)

and Memory
09.06.04 Memory Boot Camp

Pharmacology
14.05.04 Protect My House: Developing a Family Over the Counter Drug Dosage Chart

Physical Science
17.05.10 Exploring Kinematic Proportional Relationships
16.04.05 It Ain't Easy Being Green
16.04.09 Get Charged Up: The Past, Present and Future of Electricity
11.05.01 Soap: Clean for the Environment or Just Us?
11.05.10 Polytails and Urban Tumble Weaves: The Chemistry of Synthetic Hair Fibers

Physics (see Physics)

Space Travel
07.07.07 The Science and Technology of the Apollo Space Program

Science Fiction
07.01.05 War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations
07.01.07 Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic

Sexuality (see Gender)

Homosexuality

Civil Rights
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different

Transgender

Civil Rights
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy

Shakespeare, William
05.03.06 Biblioclasm: The Organized Destruction of Books

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
15.02.11 The Question of Desire: A Comparison of Love in Shakespeare
09.03.05 Shakespeare on the Cell Phone: Texting Romance

Adaptation

in Film
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant
07.01.02 Hamlet and Hollywood: Using Film Adaptation to Analyze Ophelia and Gertrude
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender
07.01.04 Modernizing Shakespeare: Finding Contemporary Themes from Othello

for Children
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters

Graphic Novels
17.01.07 Multiple Literacies Being Developed in the Literature Classroom: Hieroglyphics to Graphic Novels
10.01.06 Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant

and Gender
08.01.01 Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.07 Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender

and Performance
09.03.02 Life's But a Poor Player: Macbeth and Performing Ourselves

and Race
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric

and Religion
08.01.09 Religious Elements in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Antony and Cleopatra
09.03.06 A Tide in the Affairs of Men: Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays

As You Like It
08.01.07 Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene
08.01.08 The Language of Power in Shakespeare

Biography
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography

Character in
15.02.02 Tragedies and Plots Shaped by Characters of Shakespeare and Navajo Oral Myths
15.02.03 Fate or Action: Character Agency & What the 21st Century Student Gains from The Merchant of Venice
15.02.04 To Thine Own self Be True: the Uncovering the Hamlet in You
15.02.05 Character in Hamlet: Family & Loss
15.02.06 Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School
15.02.07 Removing the Mask: An Untamed Look at Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
15.02.08 Convincing the Masses: Rhetoric in Julius Caesar
15.02.12 Take a Stab at It: Exploring Character in Julius Caesar
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography
11.01.08 An Unforgettable Snapshot of Reading Character in The Help and Romeo and Juliet
09.03.01 That Lady is Loca! or Speech as the Main Method of Characterization in Shakespeare's Plays
09.03.03 King Lear, Part II--It's All About the Play
09.03.04 Getting to Know Shakespeare's Characters
09.03.07 Single Parenting and Family Dynamics Then and Now: King Lear
08.01.01 Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
08.01.05 To See or Not to See? A Visual Approach to Identity in Shakespeare
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender

Hamlet
15.02.04 To Thine Own self Be True: the Uncovering the Hamlet in You
15.02.05 Character in Hamlet: Family & Loss
09.03.04 Getting to Know Shakespeare's Characters
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.09 Religious Elements in Shakespeare's Hamlet
07.01.02 Hamlet and Hollywood: Using Film Adaptation to Analyze Ophelia and Gertrude

Henry VI
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography

Julius Caesar
15.02.08 Convincing the Masses: Rhetoric in Julius Caesar
15.02.10 How Our Moral Views Shape Our Judgment of Characters in Julius Caesar
15.02.12 Take a Stab at It: Exploring Character in Julius Caesar
09.03.04 Getting to Know Shakespeare's Characters
09.03.06 A Tide in the Affairs of Men: Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays

Macbeth
15.02.06 Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School
09.03.01 That Lady is Loca! or Speech as the Main Method of Characterization in Shakespeare's Plays
09.03.02 Life's But a Poor Player: Macbeth and Performing Ourselves
08.01.01 Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
08.01.08 The Language of Power in Shakespeare
07.01.03 Macbeth and Issues of Gender

Othello
15.02.02 Tragedies and Plots Shaped by Characters of Shakespeare and Navajo Oral Myths
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
07.01.04 Modernizing Shakespeare: Finding Contemporary Themes from Othello

Richard III
15.02.09 Shaping a Multi-Dimensional Villain: Richard III
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography

Roman History in
09.03.06 A Tide in the Affairs of Men: Looking at Leadership in Shakespeare's Roman Plays

Romeo and Juliet
16.02.07 Using Art-Based Research to Explore Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet with English Language Learners
15.02.01 Sticks and Stones: The Bully and the Bullies in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest
15.02.06 Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School
15.02.11 The Question of Desire: A Comparison of Love in Shakespeare
11.01.08 An Unforgettable Snapshot of Reading Character in The Help and Romeo and Juliet
11.02.05 From Inquiry to Interpretation: A Passage through the Sonnet
09.03.05 Shakespeare on the Cell Phone: Texting Romance
08.01.03 English Language Learners (ELLs) Investigate the Identity of Shakespeare and His Characters
08.01.05 To See or Not to See? A Visual Approach to Identity in Shakespeare
08.01.08 The Language of Power in Shakespeare

Sonnets
11.02.04 Teaching History through Poetry
11.02.05 From Inquiry to Interpretation: A Passage through the Sonnet
11.02.06 Teaching Reading Strategies through Lyric Forms: Politics and Love in American Sonnets
11.02.07 Sounds So Sweet
08.01.10 Detecting Shakespeare's Sonnets

Teaching of
15.02.06 Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School
13.03.11 The Tangled Web of Richard III: Shakespeare and the Art of Biography
09.03.01 That Lady is Loca! or Speech as the Main Method of Characterization in Shakespeare's Plays
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis
08.01.06 Shakespeare's World: an Integrated Unit for Third Grade
07.01.02 Hamlet and Hollywood: Using Film Adaptation to Analyze Ophelia and Gertrude

The Merchant of Venice
15.02.01 Sticks and Stones: The Bully and the Bullies in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest
15.02.03 Fate or Action: Character Agency & What the 21st Century Student Gains from The Merchant of Venice
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric

The Taming of the Shrew
15.02.02 Tragedies and Plots Shaped by Characters of Shakespeare and Navajo Oral Myths
15.02.07 Removing the Mask: An Untamed Look at Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
08.01.01 Men vs. Women: Examining the Relationship between Genre and Gender in Shakespeare
08.01.02 Race and Gender in Shakespeare and the Art of Rhetoric
08.01.04 Shakespeare's Characters: A Visual Analysis

The Tempest
15.02.01 Sticks and Stones: The Bully and the Bullies in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest

The Tragedy of King Lear
09.03.03 King Lear, Part II--It's All About the Play
09.03.04 Getting to Know Shakespeare's Characters
09.03.07 Single Parenting and Family Dynamics Then and Now: King Lear

The Twelfth Night
08.01.07 Queen Elizabeth's Influence on Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays and Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Slavery
21.02.05 American Intersections: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape our History and Lives
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
19.03.02 The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction
10.02.09 Barack Obama's Rhetoric: The Trajectory of a Post-Racial America?
09.02.01 Competing Paths of Struggle: African American Resistance to White Oppression, 1863-1896
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps
06.01.09 From Africa to America: The Untold Story
05.03.13 Arthur Miller's History Lesson: The Crucible as a Link from the Past through McCarthyism to Present-Day Terrorism

Abolitionism
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative

Douglass, Frederick
21.01.03 Remembering the Civil War: A Primary Source Comparative Study of Rhetoric and Author Purpose
20.01.06 Rhetorical Inquiry Through the Lives of Douglass and Truth
16.02.05 Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative
10.03.01 American Biographies: Lives Transformed by Literacy
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
08.02.03 The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters

Emancipation
14.01.02 American Genre Painting: Visual Representations of Slavery and Emancipation, 1850-1870
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps
05.03.09 Free, but Not Free: Civil Liberties in a Time of War

Slave Narratives
20.01.04 American Heritage: Unmasked, Unpacked & Uncloaked
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps

Transatlantic Slave Trade
22.03.03 The Resiliency of the African American Financial Narrative Presented through Multiple Media of Art
21.02.07 American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
21.03.10 Democracy: The Ancient World and Modern Implications
20.01.03 “Faces in the Frame: More than a Narrative”-The Lives that Frame the True History of the United States through Primary Sources
20.02.02 Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
14.01.12 Reading Art in Language Arts: Characterizing Human Atrocities from the Slave Trade to the Second World War
13.03.04 From Narratives to Biography: Who will listen to their stories?
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
12.01.02 Splitting Hairs: Comparing Themes in Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts
12.04.07 Diverse Journeys - Americans All!
12.04.08 True Citizenship: A Question of Race
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
11.03.07 American Tapestry: Interconnectedness Revealed through Historical Fiction
05.01.05 Rhymes and Rhythms of Black History

Social Justice (see Diversity)

and Environment
23.04.01 We are Not in this Together: The Unequal Impacts of Climate Change
23.04.02 Environmental Justice and Land Issues of Indigenous People
23.04.02 Environmental Injustice in Chicago’s Southwest Side: Pollution, Past and Present
23.04.04 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
23.04.05 Colored: An Introduction to Environmentalism
23.04.06 Next Generation Learners to Leaders: Intro to Environmental Justice
23.04.07 Environmental Injustice- A Motive for Social Change in the Americas
09.05.10 The Science of Environmental Justice: Can Green Chemistry Change Our World?

Historical Background
23.01.06 Clothing and Identity in Early America: Black Women and AmerIndian Men
23.01.10 This is America: Images and Histories of Racism and Exploitation
23.01.11 Perspectives on Race: Slavery and its Legacies in Art
21.02.02 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Historical Context through a Critical Lens
21.02.04 A Nation of Dreamers: Examining American Immigration and Race through Esperanza Rising
21.03.01 Examining the Inequitable Treatment of Asians in the US: A Civics Unit for Newcomer Els
21.03.02 The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation
21.03.03 Racial Inequities in Public School Today: Reflecting on Failures of Brown V Board
20.01.05 In Their Own Words? - Using The WPA Slave Narratives in the Classroom
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
20.02.02 Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry
19.03.01 Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements
19.03.03 Understanding Democracy in the Elementary Grades
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
19.03.10 Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
18.01.04 The American Dream,
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
17.03.05 Poetry of Defiance-From the Progressive Era to Today
17.06.06 HeLa Cells, Cervical Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine
16.01.04 Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
15.04.05 You Should Be in a Dress and Camisole
15.04.07 Immigration and the Narrative Voice: Analysis of Image and Sound in Film and Its Connection to the Immigrants' Stories
14.01.03 Whose Destiny? Viewing America's Westward Expansion through Artful Eyes
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.01.08 Perspectives on Life during the Revolutionary War through the Lens of Art and Literature
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
13.02.05 Real American: Making Literature a Means for Displacing Native American Stereotypes
13.03.05 Inspire, Reach, and Teach Through Biography
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
12.04.01 An Introduction to African American Participation in Citizenship
12.04.03 For Colored Folks Only: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Laws
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
12.04.06 Why do you want my children? A Glimpse into Native American Citizenship
12.04.09 The Resiliency of the Black Family
12.04.11 The Heart's Migration: Finding, Making, Coming Home
11.03.08 An Opportunity for All? Andrew Jackson and the American Indian
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
09.02.06 Civil Rights: Massive Assistance Resuscitated
09.02.07 That’s My Right, too: Punishment for Being Different
07.03.01 The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Freedom: Using Slave Narratives and Negro Spirituals as Maps
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
06.02.06 Chinese Immigration, Exclusion and the Chinese-American Experience
06.04.01 Let Our Things Speak True: Native American Writers Journey Back

Pedagogy of
20.01.04 American Heritage: Unmasked, Unpacked & Uncloaked
20.02.08 We Are Family: The Importance of Community through an Exploration of Johnathon Upper Elementary Schools
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
12.04.04 Our Understanding of the Meaning of Race: A Sociological Critical Lens
07.02.07 Beyond Criminal Justice: Investigating Social Issues through Detective Fiction

Promotion of
24.02.05 Through the Labor of Literacy
24.02.08 Self-Evident and Self-Contradictory: Black Readings of the Declaration of Independence
23.01.01 Curator as Detective: Looking for Missing Stories in Museums
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
23.04.05 Colored: An Introduction to Environmentalism
22.01.01 The Child Migrant: Evaluating the Journey to the United States through Film and Nonfiction Text
22.03.02 "Do you see me?" "I see you."—Identity and Activism in Black Art
22.03.03 The Resiliency of the African American Financial Narrative Presented through Multiple Media of Art
22.03.04 Art as Advocacy: Explorations into Literary and Visual Art to Provoke Change
22.03.05 Struggle, Defiance, and Triumph: Black Photographers and Their Magic
21.01.05 Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History
21.02.03 Family of Empathy
21.02.06 How Hip-Hop Moved The Crowd to Social Activism
21.02.07 American Policing Disparities: Today’s African-American Males Living in the Shadows of their Male Ancestors
21.03.06 Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
20.01.03 “Faces in the Frame: More than a Narrative”-The Lives that Frame the True History of the United States through Primary Sources
20.01.04 American Heritage: Unmasked, Unpacked & Uncloaked
20.02.01 Mexican-American Labor in California through Art Literacy
20.02.02 Who is in Charge Here?: Examining (in)visibility and Cultural Context of Jim Crow Era Monuments in Elementary Art Education
20.02.03 Understanding Race and Racism Through Faith’s Ringgold’s Work
20.02.04 Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom
20.02.07 Seeing the World through Race-Colored Glasses: Guiding High-School Journalism Students to Report in a Race-Conscious Way to Create a Race-Conscious World
20.02.09 No Lye, Nappy or Straight, People Still Gon’ Hate: Getting to the Root of the Issue; Colorblindness and Neutrality within Hairstyles and Hair Types
20.03.10 Nothing Without Us: Bringing Justice to Public Policy
20.05.04 Montessori’s Cosmic Curriculum and Biodiversity in Africa
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.03 Rethinking Policing: Origins of Brutality, the Impact and Reform
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
19.02.08 Learning the System to Overcome the System: Juvenile Justice for High School Students
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
19.03.05 Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
19.03.06 Expanding Rights in American Democracy – Coalitions, Conflict, & Controversy
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
18.01.01 Decriminalizing Education
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
18.01.04 The American Dream,
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.07 This is America: Restorative Peace Circles and the decline of Suspensions and Expulsions
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
18.01.10 Juvenile Justice in California: A Rhetorical Approach
18.02.10 The Spirit Task: African Americans Reclaim Power through Art and Poetry
17.01.06 Bringing Indigenous Stories to the Classroom through Art and Comics
17.02.08 American Born Readers: A Multicultural, Multimedia Attempt to Challenge Perspectives and Inspire Reading
17.03.03 Making Our Communities Visible: Poetry, Rhetoric and Social Justice
17.03.04 Poetry and Public Life through Cultural Perspective and Relevancy
16.01.04 Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery
16.02.08 Reading One Another: Fostering Passion and Identity Growth through African-American Literature
16.03.08 Unraveling the Dream World Stereotype of the Arab People
15.01.05 Different Cultures in Chicago's Neighborhoods: Chinese and Mexican Communities
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
15.03.02 Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film
15.04.08 Lights, Camera, Action! Reading Children’s Literature through Film in the Spanish Classroom
14.01.09 Pain to Pride: A Visual Journey of African American Life in 19th Century Richmond, VA
14.02.07 Poetry Café: The World of Langston Hughes
14.03.01 Lights, Camera, Immigration! An Examination of Global Cities through Film
13.02.05 Real American: Making Literature a Means for Displacing Native American Stereotypes
13.02.08 Teaching Tone, Mood and Purpose through the Interpretation of Activist Poetry
12.02.05 The Truth about Lies: Recognizing Lies, Stereotypes, and Prejudice through Memoir Reading and Writing
12.02.10 Stylistic Voice and Questions of Speaking for the Voiceless in The Poisonwood Bible
12.04.02 Exchanging Letters - Changing Legacies
12.04.04 Our Understanding of the Meaning of Race: A Sociological Critical Lens
12.04.07 Diverse Journeys - Americans All!
11.01.01 The Other Side: Experiencing Cultures through the Eyes of My Students
11.01.07 Taking Pride in Our Character
11.04.03 The Intangible Heritage of Diné
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
09.01.01 Using Stories and Film in the English Language Learner Classroom to Teach Immigration History
09.02.02 The Audacity of Hope for a Hopeless Generation
09.02.03 Turning Hope into Reality
09.02.05 Analysis of the Obama Election: Will It Bring Rights and Representation for Minorities?
09.02.09 Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation
09.03.08 African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
09.04.01 Embracing the Frumious Bandersnatch: Sound, Rhyme, and Nonsense in Poetry for Young Children
07.02.06 Crime Fiction Investigation: "Socially Correct or Not, Let Me Tell You Who Did It"
07.03.02 Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture
07.04.01 Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia
06.03.07 From Aztecs to Aztlan: Building Cultural Bridges through Literature
06.04.03 Native American Art Traditions in the Middle School Arts Curriculum

Sociology
20.02.09 No Lye, Nappy or Straight, People Still Gon’ Hate: Getting to the Root of the Issue; Colorblindness and Neutrality within Hairstyles and Hair Types
11.05.10 Polytails and Urban Tumble Weaves: The Chemistry of Synthetic Hair Fibers
07.01.10 Political Socialization: Finding Ourselves in Film
07.02.09 Police Investigative Challenges: To Snitch or Not to Snitch, That is the Unanswered Question

and Race (see Race)
23.01.08 Racialization: Past and Present
19.02.01 Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa
19.02.04 Understanding and Challenging the Overcriminalization of Youth of Color
18.01.04 The American Dream,
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.09 13th and Locking Up Our Own: Argument, Voice, and Perspective in Two Modern Meditations on Mass Incarceration
12.04.04 Our Understanding of the Meaning of Race: A Sociological Critical Lens
12.04.09 The Resiliency of the Black Family

Demography
21.05.03 Human Population Over Time – Analyzing the Demographic Transition Model

Ethnography
21.02.01 Exploring Belonging and Exclusion through Ethnography
12.01.06 The Stuff We Have: Ethnographies, Material Culture, and Art
12.04.07 Diverse Journeys - Americans All!
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness

Gender (see Gender)

Identity (see Identity)
19.03.04 Grade Level Gavel Student Court: Justice for All
13.04.05 Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry
13.04.06 People with Disabilities: An Invisible Community
11.04.03 The Intangible Heritage of Diné
09.01.09 The Global Bildungsroman: A Film Study of Individual Identity and Integration into Society

Inequality
21.03.04 Can They Escape from Hot Cheetos & Takis? Black Appetite, White Food: Examining Issues of Race, Democracy, and Place
21.03.06 Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
21.03.07 Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism
21.03.09 Democracy & Inequality: To be or not to be?
21.03.10 Democracy: The Ancient World and Modern Implications
20.03.08 When downward Mobility Strikes
19.03.10 Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
18.01.03 The Intersection of Crime and Immigration
18.01.04 The American Dream,
17.02.11 Whose America? Americans in the Americas and Inequality
11.03.02 American Ideas in Three Artist Collectives

Judgement
11.01.03 You'll Stumble in My Footsteps: Character Traits, Choices, and Outcomes in Literature

of Education
21.03.04 Can They Escape from Hot Cheetos & Takis? Black Appetite, White Food: Examining Issues of Race, Democracy, and Place
21.03.06 Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy
20.03.08 When downward Mobility Strikes
18.01.06 Ancient Law Codes to School Discipline: Is it Justice for All?
18.01.07 This is America: Restorative Peace Circles and the decline of Suspensions and Expulsions

Poverty
20.03.01 It’s the Economy, Stupid: Lessons in Economics, Banking, and Personal Finance from the Financial Crisis of 2008
20.03.02 UBI (Universal Basic Income): Yay! We Don’t Have to Work Anymore?
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
18.01.08 Understanding the System: A History of Prison and the Virginia Juvenile Justice System
12.04.09 The Resiliency of the Black Family
09.01.03 A.VOID: Who Are the Poor People? How Environment Impacts the Development of Character
07.03.07 Santa Fe and the World: Maps and Mapmaking of People, Places and Poverty

Research (see Research)
13.04.07 Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts: A Menu of Sociological Research Methods

Social Networking
08.03.10 MySpace in Democracy: inquiry on how social networks and media technologies promote and disrupt democratic practices

Social Skills
23.05.07 Mimicking Nature to Create a Classroom Culture
16.02.04 Learning Social Skills and Problem Solving with Winnie-the-Pooh

Urban (see Urban)
18.01.05 From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure

Spain

History
13.01.08 Medals, Monuments, and Money: Nationalist Art in Spain and Mexico

Spanish-American War
22.02.04 Creating Filipino Nationality: Race and Hierarchy in the Context of Empire (1886-1916)

Spanish
24.03.06 Sight, Sound, and Satire: Exploring Calaveras Literarias
23.02.02 Niños y la Naturaleza: Nature in the World Language Classroom
20.02.05 Race and Racial Formation in Latin America: Racism Conscious Instruction in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
15.04.08 Lights, Camera, Action! Reading Children’s Literature through Film in the Spanish Classroom
14.02.02 Growing Up Yo in New Haven: Teaching Spanish through Bilingual Slam Poetry
13.01.08 Medals, Monuments, and Money: Nationalist Art in Spain and Mexico
13.04.05 Invisible Migrations: The Journey from Spanish to English and Back Again Through Performance Poetry
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
11.04.04 The Scene of the Crime, Mexico City: Performing History in the Language Classroom
09.01.02 Lo “real maravilloso” y el cine

Sports

and Race
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry

Baseball
08.05.05 Ballpark Figures: Quantitative Inquiries of Baseball and Beyond!

Basketball
21.03.07 Cause and Effect: Inequality and Activism

Boxing
08.03.06 Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One: An Examination of Democratic and Other Political Values as Depicted in Literature

Business of
20.02.06 Collusion in the Owner’s Box: How Racism and Oppression Have Built the American Sports Industry

Statistics

Data Science
21.05.04 Math by Design; Creating Innovators in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
21.05.05 Data and Graphical Analysis in Life Science

Graphical Analysis
21.05.05 Data and Graphical Analysis in Life Science

Pedagogy of
08.05.04 Crunching Numbers for Lunch

Population
21.05.03 Human Population Over Time – Analyzing the Demographic Transition Model

Science
22.05.02 Energy Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones: The impacts of climate change
20.05.10 Marine Biotoxins: Invisible, Odorless, and Lethal
15.06.06 Statistical Methods and Health in Chicago
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
05.04.09 The Use of Astronomy to Teach Statistical Concepts

Steinem, Gloria
13.03.12 Glory Daze: Gloria Steinem's Biography Untangles the Mystique of Feminism

Superman
21.04.01 Our Sun: The Myths, The Facts, and Superman

Supreme Court (see Law)

Brown v. Board of Education
21.03.02 The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation
21.03.03 Racial Inequities in Public School Today: Reflecting on Failures of Brown V Board
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
19.03.09 The Different Shades of the Yellow Bus
19.03.10 Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality
15.01.07 Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and the Integration of Schools
12.04.05 From Three Rivers to Arlington: Mexican American Civil Rights to 1954
06.02.03 Why Do We Have to Rely on the Supreme Court? An Interactive Examination of How the Supreme Court Shapes Policy through Individual Rights and Public Opinion
06.02.04 Justice in Action: Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education
06.02.07 Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction

Bush v. Gore
06.02.02 The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
16.01.05 The Constitutional Crisis of Indian Removal
11.03.08 An Opportunity for All? Andrew Jackson and the American Indian

Citizens United v F.E.C.
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance

Dred Scott v. Sanford
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
06.02.02 The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court

Gideon v Wainwright
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change

History
20.03.05 The Supreme Court: Allowing and Constraining Constitutional Change
20.03.06 Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance
12.03.09 Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
06.02.02 The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court
06.02.03 Why Do We Have to Rely on the Supreme Court? An Interactive Examination of How the Supreme Court Shapes Policy through Individual Rights and Public Opinion
06.02.07 Our Right to Read, to Learn, and to Think: Ray Bradbury's Prediction

Johnson v. M’intosh
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
16.01.05 The Constitutional Crisis of Indian Removal

Marbury v. Madison
06.02.02 The Powers We Accept: A Brief Unit on the Supreme Court

Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice

Walker v. City of Birmingham
06.02.01 The Language of Justice

Worcester v. Georgia
16.01.01 Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
16.01.05 The Constitutional Crisis of Indian Removal

Surveillance
15.04.04 Film Analysis and Contemporary Issues: The Surveillance State

Sustainability
24.04.03 Powering A Sustainable Future – The Role for Agriculture
24.04.04 The Future of Renewable Energy and Solar Electric Innovations
24.04.06 Using Dr. Seuss to Teach about Environmental Conservation
22.05.01 New Castle and Climate Change – Causes, Evidence, Impacts, and Potential Solutions
20.04.04 The Life Cycle of Rare Earth Elements
20.04.07 Confronting the Plastic Wasteland through Engineering
20.04.10 Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!
20.05.06 Friend or Foe: Human Impact on the Earth’s Ecosystems
12.07.01 Quantifying Solutions to Reduce Our Food's Environmental Impact
08.07.04 Our Environment: A World Away?
07.05.01 Petroleum: Our Best Transportation Option?
07.05.03 Environmentalists and Chemists Unite: A Chemistry Class for our Changing World
07.05.04 Catch the Wind
07.05.05 Stylin' Your Ride: A Student's Guide to Designing Green Vehicles
07.05.06 The Power of the Sun

and Technology
20.04.02 Building a Heat-Resilient Community in Richmond, Virginia
19.04.01 Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
19.04.05 Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
13.05.07 It Don't Come Easy: The Promises and Challenges of Biofuel Production
09.07.06 Unconventional Transportation

Conservation
23.04.04 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
23.05.05 Growing a Sustainable Future
20.04.01 The Chemistry of Energy
20.04.05 A Plastic Struggle for Mother Earth
19.04.03 My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow
19.04.08 Analyzing Energy Efficiency Through Energy Transformations
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
16.04.05 It Ain't Easy Being Green
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
12.06.06 Inquiry in the Middle School Classroom: Students as Watershed Stewards
11.05.03 It's All about Plastic, Everywhere…
11.05.08 Trash – Seriously!
09.05.03 It's Not Waste: Teaching Recycling through Density, Phase Change and Solubility
09.05.05 Effects of Rates of Change and Accumulated Change in a Throw-Away Society
09.05.07 Experiencing Positive Relationships with Managing the Environment
09.05.08 What's Your Green Bottom Line? The Truth About What We Leave Behind
09.05.09 Green Chemistry: Is Water, Water?
09.07.01 Flexible Enthusiasm: Consumption and Awareness of Plastics in Our Lives
09.07.07 Energy, Climate, Environment: What's Plastic Got To Do with It?
09.07.10 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Oh My!
08.07.06 Life Cycle Analysis of an Ordinary Plastic Water Bottle
06.05.07 The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments

Environmental Justice
23.05.03 Coffee, Cacao, and Chacras – Applying Principles of Sustainable Agriculture in Costa Rica and Peru to Farming in Delaware
20.04.05 A Plastic Struggle for Mother Earth
14.04.07 Energizing the Debate: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Sources of Energy
12.07.07 Humans: Champions of Justice or Villains of the Ecosystem?
09.05.10 The Science of Environmental Justice: Can Green Chemistry Change Our World?

Renewable Energy
19.04.01 Driving in the Future: How Far Will that Battery Take You?
19.04.02 Acids and Particulate Matter and Mercury, Oh My! An Examination of the Major Impacts of Coal on the Environment
19.04.05 Prototyping a Wind Turbine and Measuring Performance
19.04.07 Islands and Their Energy Needs
16.04.04 Energetics of Biofuel - Investigating Alternative Energy Sources by Manufacturing Biodiesel
16.04.06 Solar and Wind and Batteries, Oh My!
13.05.01 Energy Usage and Conservation: My Impact on the World
13.05.03 A Chemistry Perspective: Gasoline or Biodiesel?
13.05.04 Fusion: The Energy of the Future?
13.05.05 Mathematics of Energy Efficiency: Use Less, Save More
13.05.06 Math Equations of Energy
13.05.07 It Don't Come Easy: The Promises and Challenges of Biofuel Production
13.05.09 Nihodzaan (Mother Earth)
12.07.02 Solar VS Fossil Fuel Generated Electricity: Can Physics Determine Which is Best For You and Your School?
12.07.08 Energy for the Future, Superheroes Need Not Apply
09.07.02 Energy Quest: Exploring Sun, Wind, and Water
09.07.06 Unconventional Transportation
06.05.07 The Case for Biodiesel with Selected Experiments